TVBEurope presents selected features examining the business of broadcast and post in Europe, including the changing business models that drive it, the people that shape it, and the products that will mould its future. See the Digital Editions for more.

Considering that a system with the same power would have cost at least $200,000 until recently, Blackmagic Design's unveiling of a Mac OSX version of its DaVinci Resolve colour correction software for less than $1,000 is one of the greatest price reductions in broadcast history, writes , writes David Fox.

At the 3D Masters 2010 conference there was a marked contrast between the attitudes of the BBC and BSkyB to stereo 3D.

While every manufacturer who appears in the pages of TVBEurope counts broadcasters as customers, few have themselves ever featured in a television programme. For at least one vendor, a BBC programme proved a turning point in the company’s history. Dick Hobbs tells the story.

It was fitting that NAB coincided with stereo coverage of The Masters golf championship, as 3D was a dominant topic in Las Vegas. By Carolyn Giardina.

Commoditisation or specialist perfection? Dick Hobbs presents his round-up of events in Las Vegas, but begins several thousand miles away at the Thames Valley Group meeting of the Royal Television Society.

An air of optimism pervaded NAB this year as the signs of economic recovery gradually emerge. However the broadcast industry in its traditional form may have been left behind, to be slowly but surely replaced with a radically different media world. NAB analysis by John Ive, IveTech.

In advance of a formal review of NAB in terms of long-term technology analysis and patterns for Europe later this month, Fergal Ringrose gives his initial observations on what NAB 2010 meant for the business of broadcasting technology in general.

One of the most exciting developments of the past year, for those whose ambition is larger than their budget, has been the introduction of HD DSLR cameras that offer large sensors and a huge range of lenses for less than the price of a Sony EX1.

The latest version of Adobe's Creative Suite should be a lot faster to use, not only thanks to workflow improvements but because its main broadcast applications are now all 64-bit and can access the new Mercury Playback Engine for video, writes David Fox.

Serial post production industry entrepreneur MC Patel explains the key technology behind his new signal processing venture eMotion. Interview by Adrian Pennington.

Ted Schilowitz tells Adrian Pennington that the Red rebellion is over. He has dropped the self-styled ‘Leader of the Rebellion’ title, claiming that the war has been won and the goal now is simply to achieve the best imaging system.

With the company’s tenth anniversary this month, and its best ever quarter at the end of 2009, it seems like a good time to review the performance of automation and asset management specialist Pebble Beach Systems. Dick Hobbs takes a look at the company.

Over the past 100 years, Vinten has become firmly established in television, supporting programme making in the most literal sense with its camera pedestals, cranes and moving heads. Kevin Hilton reports.

As Sky and other organisations move toward launching 3D in the home, David Wood, deputy director of the EBU Technical Group, urged the industry to look at a number of still unknown topics. Carolyn Giardina reports.

Each year Devoncroft Partners takes the pulse of the broadcast industry through the annual Big Broadcast Survey (BBS), a global study of industry trends, vendor brands and technology purchasing behaviour. By Joe Zaller.